The early English Baptists, 1603-1649
This book challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were divided from the first into two separate denominations, 'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in fact much more c...
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Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2006.
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Reviews: | The early English Baptists, 1603–1649. By Stephen Wright. Pp. x+278. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006. £50. 1 84383 195 3 (2009) (Brachlow, Stephen)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
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/ History 1603-1649
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Baptists (England)
History 17th century
B Baptists ; England ; History ; 17th century B Baptists England History, 17th century |
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| Summary: | This book challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were divided from the first into two separate denominations, 'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in fact much more complicated. It describes how from the foundation of the 'Generals' in 1609 there were always two tendencies, one clericalist and pacifist, influenced by the Dutch Mennonites, and one reflecting the English traditions of erastianism and local lay predominance in religion. It re-analyses the confessional struggle during and after the civil war, showing how Independent and erastian sentiment in Parliament increasingly combined to baulk Presbyterian ambition; during and partly because of this process (which they also influenced), the Baptists evolved into three recognisable tendencies. Amongst General Baptists there was a politically radical current, but also a more passive tendency which was starting to gain ground. In 1647-9 most but by no means all Particular Baptist leaders were hostile to the Levellers. The book looks at the nature of religious conviction in the New Model Army, reassessing the role and influence of Baptists in it. In the late 40s, many Baptists, soldiers and civilians, rejected formal ordinances altogether. STEPHEN WRIGHT received his Ph.D. from the University of London. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of North London. Puritans, separatists and Baptists, 1603-10 -- The Baptists in England, 1611-38 -- The restoration of immersion and Baptist alignments, 1638-44 -- Internal discussions and external alignments, 1642-5 -- The Baptists and politics, 1645-7 -- The army, the Levellers and the Revolution |
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| ISBN: | 1846154634 |